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Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students
Our church schools need teachers who have high moral qualities;
those who can be trusted; those who are sound in the faith and who
have tact and patience; those who walk with God and abstain from
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the very appearance of evil....
Results of Church-School Work
When properly conducted, church schools will be the means
of lifting the standard of truth in the places where they are estab-
lished; for children who are receiving a Christian education will
be witnesses for Christ. As Jesus in the temple solved mysteries
which priests and rulers had not discerned, so in the closing work
of this earth, children who have been rightly educated will in their
simplicity speak words which will be an astonishment to men who
now talk of “higher education.”
As the children sang in the temple courts, “Hosanna; Blessed is
He that cometh in the name of the Lord” (
Mark 11:9
), so in these
last days children’s voices will be raised to give the last message
of warning to a perishing world. When heavenly intelligences see
that men are no longer permitted to present the truth, the Spirit of
God will come upon the children, and they will do a work in the
proclamation of the truth which the older workers cannot do because
their way will be hedged up.
Our church schools are ordained by God to prepare the children
for this great work. Here children are to be instructed in the special
truths for this time, and in practical missionary work. They are
to enlist in the army of workers to help the sick and the suffering.
Children can take part in the medical missionary work and by their
jots and tittles can help to carry it forward. Their investments may be
small, but every little helps, and by their efforts many souls will be
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won to the truth. By them God’s message will be made known and
His saving health to all nations. Then let the church carry a burden
for the lambs of the flock. Let the children be educated and trained
to do service for God, for they are the Lord’s heritage.—
Testimonies
for the Church 6:193-203
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